Read the following article and be prepared to discuss the author's ideas. Be sure to complete the admit slip for it. If it clear that you have not read the article, you will be asked not to participate in the socratic seminar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/opinion/27hogeland.html
Our discussion tomorrow will be graded!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
17 comments:
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/MN/more.php?id=1063_0_5_0
Dylan M
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2012940.stm
Africa to Spain...BBC News
"Spain's immigration 'stepping stone'"
Carrie-Ann
Since the early 1800's, immigration has been both a crucial component of America's growth and a periodic source of conflict, and in recent years it has become one of the most contentious issues on the nation's political agenda.
In 2003, President Bush called for a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, the first since the mid-80's. His proposal focused on creating a guest worker program that would allow immigrants to legally enter the country temporarily to fill jobs that employers say would otherwise go unfilled. The plan was overshadowed by the opening of the Iraq war and was set aside during the campaign season of 2004.
By the time legislation had worked its way through to the floor of the House of Representatives in late 2005, it was clear that the mood had shifted on immigration, particularly among Republicans. In December 2005 the Republican-controlled House passed a bill that rejected Mr. Bush's plan for a guest worker program, and instead called for the deportation of all illegal immigrants and proposed making it a felony to offer them any assistance.
Church groups and organizations representing immigrants and Hispanics reacted angrily, and organized large demonstrations through the spring of 2006.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators reached an agreement on a bill that would create a guest worker program and give many illegal immigrants a path toward citizenship. President Bush gave his support, but the effort collapsed after many conservative Republicans denounced it as an "amnesty" plan.
Negotiations resumed in the spring of 2007, with members of the Senate, now controlled by Democrats by the slimmest of margins, discussing a plan that would focus on the national security concerns and law-enforcement concerns raised by conservatives first, before moving on to elements addressing guest workers and creating a route for illegal immigrants to gain legal status.
The plan, the product of a bipartisan group, collapsed under the weight of conservative objections. It was revived after an agreement was reached among Republicans to limit the number of amendments, then collapsed again on June 28, when a proposal to end debate and move toward final passage was defeated. Senators on both sides of the issue said at the time that it was unlikely a bill could be passed before the 2008 elections. - Updated June 28, 2007
Acquired from The New York Times
just made blog add as friend
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33783-2004Aug25.html
Josh D.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_21/b4035066.htm
~ Lisa
www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=97
Qiana
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3129 --this one is about france
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/world/americas/27migration.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Sean lowe
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/the_global_immigration_problem.html
rbhut
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080904/ts_afp/entertainmentlatamimmigrationphotography_080904052814&printer=1;_ylt=A0wNcyAgNdBIQyUAnRGGOrgF
United States
New York-based Human Rights Watch reports on how the US Immigration and Naturalization Service treat immigration detainees as though they were criminals by putting these otherwise innocent people in jail, indefinitely.
US immigration policies, (especially noticeable during the economic boom at the end of the 1990s) are interesting in that they are really designed to bring in immigrants with a certain level and type of education to help enhance the nation, economically. While at first thought this seems reasonable, there are a few ramifications:
• A disproportionate representation of that ethnic population becomes part of the American culture;
• As a result it affects the stereotypical image of such minorities seemingly in a positive way as always being hard-working but also as only interested in the pursuit of financial gains, for example.
• However, a strange twist occurs:
o Some politicians use such stereotyped groups to show how other immigrant populations in the US who have been around longer should follow newer immigrant’s examples
o Some even using that as a basis to argue for a further cut in social welfare subsidies for example, unfairly blaming such people solely for their economic problems.
o So, as an unfortunate example, South Asian Americans are inadvertently looked upon negatively by many in the Black and Latino communities, and vice versa.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jun/30/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-migrant-smuggler,0,3598172.story
~Danielle W.~
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/sg-29jan2004.htm
Kaylah G.
George Washington, a young colonel in the Virginia militia, instructed his land-buying agents in the many ways of getting around the law. Although Washington was not alone in acquiring forbidden tracts, few were as energetic in the illegal acquisition of western land. And Washington was a model of decorum compared to Ethan Allen, a rowdy from Connecticut who settled with his brothers in a part of the Green Mountains known as the Hampshire Grants (later known as “Vermont”). The province of New York held title to the land, but Allen asserted his own kind of claim: He threw New Yorkers out, Tony Soprano style, then offered to sell their lots to what he hoped would be a flood of fellow illegals from Connecticut.
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/sg-29jan2004.htm
shabazz
Post a Comment